Hi! I’ve had a idea for a project for a long time but have been searching for the right product(s) to purchase that aren’t too expensive. Maybe this would be perfect? I’m interested in receiving data from involuntarily activated facial muscles and getting it accessible by Python in real-time. They’re fairly small muscle groups, and I’m not sure if the muscle sensor is too large for this purpose. I’d love to not have to use a microcontroller if I can help it. Any suggestions regarding how to do this would be fantastic. Thank you!
I think it’ll be very tricky as many facial muscles are covered by layers of…more muscles :-/
You might be able to set the sensitivity low, record some data, then set it high and re-record and see if you can glean the microexpressions from the data
It might be easier to use video and motion amplification; MiT has an open-source API to fiddle with
Thanks for your response! The facial muscles I’m looking to record activation data for don’t really make any visual changes, so I don’t believe video would be useful. I believe that other facial muscles would not be used very much while I was recording data, so that might help with ensuring the data is clean. How deep can these sensors receive muscle activation data?
So to provide a better idea, if I place my fingers on the top or bottom edge of my eye socket outside the eyelid I can definitely feel the muscles activate. I’d really like to know whether placing the sensors here would not be an inappropriate application for this product.
I’d advise just getting your hands on one and doing some testing to see how sensitive you can get it to behave